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Hope for community corrections

In this month's Washington Monthly:Jail Break - How smarter parole and probation can cut the nation?s incarceration rateIf we want to end the era of mass incarceration and replace it with a regime of less punishment and less crime, drug testing is only one of the ways to apply the central lesson of HOPE ("Hawaii?s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement"): that clearly communicated threats of swift, certain punishment really can change behavior, even when the punishment is modest. By thinking creatively, we could transform the entire range of community-based punishments into effective alternatives to incarceration. That would have a profound impact on offenders? lives, on the number of people behind bars, and on the crime rate...The book is When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment, by Mark Kleiman...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).